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A man who was killed when he fell into an excavation site Friday on I-95 has been identified as Jose Felix Obando, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office. Deputies said Obando, 42, was working at an excavation site at about 1:30 p.m., when he fell into the hole by the southbound ramp of I-95 at Hallandale Beach Boulevard. He fell about 12 feet, officials said. Two co-workers tried to save him, and hours later, crews were able to recover his body. The Broward County Medical Examiner has not determined a cause of death yet.

Q: Signs say the completion date for the Kingfisher Waterway Bridge is now summer of 2014. It appears no actual work has taken place for some time and I'm wondering whether the already extended completion date from the spring is realistic and why the timetable had to be changed. Jeffrey L. Resnick, Lighthouse Point A: The contractor damaged private seawalls on three adjacent residential properties during pile driving for the bridge project, according to Lighthouse Point's web site.

A construction worker diving in a large, water-filled ditch died Tuesday after he didn't surface and a co-worker pulled him out, the Broward Sheriff's Office said. Ernesto Rodriguez, 45, of Hialeah, was working on an underwater pipe along Bonaventure Boulevard, just south of Indian Trace in Weston, about 12:20 p.m. when he didn't surface, the agency said. A co-worker jumped in the water to rescue Rodriguez, but was unable to find him. The co-worker tried two more times and on the third attempt, the co-worker found Rodriguez and pulled him from the water.

In response to the May 27 letter, "Lack of English noted on PortMiami signs," in which the writer complained about the signs not being written in English: The words appear to be in Latin, not Spanish, or Portuguese, or French, or Creole. Great achievements are often decorated with Latin words, including some of our monuments in Washington, D.C., and even my college diploma. One cannot deny that the tunnel was the result of a great achievement in construction. Congratulations to all involved.

The David Posnack Jewish Day School, a private Jewish prep school, will begin construction in September on a $7 million building for a new high school. "This solidifies Posnack's future for many years," said Richard Cuenca, the head of school. The three-story building will open for the 2015-16 school year and include science labs, art and music studios, a theater, media center, lecture hall and television production studio. This building, at Pine Island and Stirling Roads, will double the number of classrooms since the number of high school students is now 183, up from 128 two years ago. Rapid growing enrollment meant construction needed to begin now, Cuenca said, even through only 60 percent of the money has been raised.

On Wednesday, Dave Haggerty, the chairman of the United States Tennis Association, will announce plans to construct a sprawling national training facility in Lake Nona in southeast Orlando. Upon completion of this $60 million, state-of-the-art 100-court, 63-acre complex targeted for late 2016, the USTA national training center in Boca Raton will relocate to the middle of the state. For the past seven years the USTA has been leasing the facilities from the adjoining Evert Tennis Academy and IMG, utilizing 6 to 8 of their 23 on-site courts and a building dedicated to fitness.

South Florida high schools take note: Here's a project worth undertaking, something more than just a display in a classroom. Best of all, it benefits the community, and will continue to do so for years. The project involves students at Atlantic Community High School in Delray Beach . It isn't quick or easy, but it sure is worthwhile. About 120 students took more than three years to basically build a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home from scratch to finish, including permitting.

It is a high school class project that will be part of Delray Beach for a long time to come. A group of hard-hat wearing students from Atlantic Community High now are touching up a three-bedroom, two-bath home that they took from permits to plaster. It took the 120 kids more than three years to finish the job - but they worked only about two hours every other day on it. Then it was off to math class. But their legacy is done now - and soon a family that could not have afforded a house like this will be calling it home.

The Wellington Village Council had some issues with the construction costs of the Wellington Green Park restrooms and storage area, which came in double what village staff had estimated. During the April 22 meeting the council addressed what it called a reoccurring issue with recent projects and budgeting. "I'm starting to have a growing lack of confidence in the estimates that are given to us upon which we base our decisions," Councilman Howard Coates said. "Because I'm seeing time and time again where they're just radically off. " The issue was a proposed $208,000 contract to add public restrooms and storage facilities to the 10-acre park south of the Hampton Inn & Suites off Wellington Green Drive.